Russia and Serbia have signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in nuclear energy and a joint statement on strategic partnership for the construction of a centre of nuclear science, technology and innovation. World-nuclear-news.org

A permit for the expansion of the existing SFR repository for low- and intermediate-level waste should be granted under the Sweden’s Environmental Code, the country’s Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) has recommended to the Land and Environment Court in Stockholm. World-nuclear-news.org

Horizon Nuclear Power today outlined the procedure it will follow now that its new-build projects have been suspended. The UK subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi said it had made substantial progress with its plans to provide at least 5.4 GWe of new capacity across two sites – Wylfa Newydd, in north Wales, and Oldbury-on-Severn, in southwest England – by deploying Hitachi-GE UK advanced boiling reactors (UK ABWRs). World-nuclear-news.org

Westinghouse Electric Company has been awarded $93.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in support of their accident-tolerant fuel program, EnCore fuel, the company said Friday. Nuclearstreet.com